The Pelagios Map is an interactive map of the Roman Empire. You can scroll around the Empire, zoom in and out, and see both natural features and manmade ones. It marks a wide variety of sites and would be very useful for tracking Horace’s travels or Pliny’s activities during the eruption of Vesuvius. (via the Smithsonian Blog)
Links for November 14th
November 15, 2014
A skeleton was recently unearthed in the tomb at Amphipolis. Some free maps of the Roman Empire. A brief article contrasting modern democracy with that